The art talk took place in conjunction with the screening of Fathia Mohidin’s video work KIN on the big screen in the atrium in late March and early April at the Stockholm School of Economics. KIN investigates muscles as memory and the kinship with forefathers. 

During an hour-long art talk in the Jacob Dahlgren room at the Stockholm School of Economics, SSE researcher Martin Carlsson-Wall and artist Fathia Mohidin discussed the overarching theme of how sports does relate to art, the quantification of performance in sports (key thing is, for instance, watches, pulse measurement, how fast you run, measurement of training as well as nutrition), the boundary between work time and spare time, and how the progression of digitalization has created more blurriness between work and spare time, as well as how the gym can be seen as an illustration of one of today’s bigger societal issues, and the opportunities and problems it creates.

“Having a conversation about sports, economics, and art with Martin Carlsson-Wall and hearing the students’ reflections gave me several new perspectives on the topic. The conversations about, among other things, quantification and accounting in relation to sports and art showed several exciting similarities. Among other things, I take with me the reflections on the demarcation between work time and spare time, as well as memory as an accounting artifact into my own artistic research. I have both been inspired and learned a lot!”, says Fathia Mohidin.  

Martin Carlsson-Wall continues, "I learned a lot from combining insights from art and sport. Fathia Mohidin is a fascinating artist. Her work about the gym and how the body connects to memory and different senses gave me a lot to think about. In general, I think this type of "bubble-hopping" where you combine knowledge and networks from two different worlds is very inspiring."

Martin Carlsson-Wall (Director for Center for Sports and Business) and Fathia Mohidin